CANAL FOR BIG SHIPS
LINKING THE ATLANTIC & MEDITERRANEAN STRATEGIC 'AND COMMERCIAL WATERWAY. AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. , (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m. PARIS, December 16. It is reported that negotiations are being concluded between French, British and Dutch interests, for the construction of a canal for ocean-going vessels, linking up the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, at a cost of £90,000,000. The work will chiefly consist of deepening the existing water routes between Bordeaux and Lanouvelle. The canal would, be important strategically, it would give the British and French fleets easier communication between possibly threatened points. At present destroyers alone are able to use the existing waterways. Moreover, the canal would be a commercial highway similar to the suez and Panama canals. The work will occupy about three years and probably will be finished in 1942.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 7
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137CANAL FOR BIG SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 7
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